PASTOR MOSES SOLOMON MALE is Executive Director or Arising for Christ ministry. An ardent critic of the widespread prosperity gospel where pastors ‘sell’ prayers for numerous needs, Male tells RICHARD M. KAVUMA why he wants a judicial probe into born-again churches.

Was Jesus rich? The question matters to preachers and evangelists who want you to buy into their prosperity gospel.

Recently, Time magazine explored the popularity of prosperity theology, a movement that goes by various other names, too: word of faith, health and wealth or name it and claim it. I have more than a passing interest in this theology. I hold it partly responsible for my wife’s death.

Editor's note: The following is a summary of this week's Time magazine cover story.

Thirty-five thousand Baptists are visiting Dallas this week. They represent the nation's largest African-American organization, the National Baptist Convention.

The end of the 1980s was a bad time for TV preachers.

They are specially gifted and their power to make people empty their pockets at crusades has made them the most-sought after pastors